Software almost always charges one person for a private upgrade, but the things worth paying for in a group are jointly held. A reflection on why the unit of payment should be the relationship, not the individual.
In university my circle kept collapsing back to four, and Robin Dunbar's research suggests that's not a coincidence. On why real intimacy has a ceiling, and why the gatherings that matter still run on a small-group engine even when the crowd is big.
Social media is built like a town square. A reflection on why the relationships that matter happen somewhere else, and what a digital living room could actually look like.
Most apps with the word friend in the copy are engagement apps in disguise. A reflection on what software built for friendship would actually look like — and why ritual matters more than reach.
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